School: Tattenclave

Location:: Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 167

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in the rushes. She has hay in it. She lays five eggs. They are brown in colour. The swan lays eight eggs. She builds her nest in a whole pile of pipes. Two young swans live every year.
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The blackbird, the rook, the robin, the corncrake, the cuckoo - them birds come to us. The blackbird stays with us the whole year, and so does the cuckoo.
The corncrake and the cuckoo come to us for the summer. Then they go away for the winter. The rooks come to us for the winter and go away

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